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go to
(mass)		go to
- navštíviť
go to
(encz)		go to,navštívit v: Zdeněk Brož
go to
(encz)		go to,odebrat se Zdeněk Brož
Go to
(gcide)		Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n;
115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS,
wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to
D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan.
gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go,
AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from
the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf.
Gang, v. i., Wend.]
1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be
in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to
advance; to make progress; -- used, in various
applications, of the movement of both animate and
inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the
movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
[1913 Webster]

2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to
walk step by step, or leisurely.
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Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or
ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.
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You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go.
--Shak.
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Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long
that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

He fell from running to going, and from going to
clambering upon his hands and his knees.
--Bunyan.
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Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in
the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
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3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to
circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken,
accepted, or regarded.
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The man went among men for an old man in the days of
Saul. --1 Sa. xvii.
12.
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[The money] should go according to its true value.
--Locke.
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4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move
on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue
or result; to succeed; to turn out.
[1913 Webster]

How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.
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I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of
man enough. --Arbuthnot.
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Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you
must pay me the reward. --I Watts.
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5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or
product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to
avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the
infinitive; as, this goes to show.
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Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

To master the foul flend there goeth some complement
knowledge of theology. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]

6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
[1913 Webster]

Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a
resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to
justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present
participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an
infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to
denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to
begin harvest.
[1913 Webster]

7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
or through.
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By going over all these particulars, you may receive
some tolerable satisfaction about this great
subject. --South.
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8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
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The fruit she goes with,
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live. --Shak.
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9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
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I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
--Ex. viii.
28.
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10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
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By Saint George, he's gone!
That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W.
Scott.
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11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
York.
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His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
may allow. --Dryden.
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12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
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Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
astray, etc.
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Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
serious or ironical.

To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

To go about.
(a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix.
29.
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They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
their vices. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.


To go abraod.
(a) To go to a foreign country.
(b) To go out of doors.
(c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
current.
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Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren. --John xxi.
23.

To go against.
(a) To march against; to attack.
(b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

To go ahead.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

To go aside.
(a) To withdraw; to retire.
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He . . . went aside privately into a desert
place. --Luke. ix.
10.
(b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

To go back on.
(a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
(b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
S.]

To go below
(Naut), to go below deck.

To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.


To go beyond. See under Beyond.

To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried
overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

To go down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
(c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
(d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
[Colloq.]
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Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.

To go far.
(a) To go to a distance.
(b) To have much weight or influence.

To go for.
(a) To go in quest of.
(b) To represent; to pass for.
(c) To favor; to advocate.
(d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
(e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or
result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
for nothing.

To go forth.
(a) To depart from a place.
(b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
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The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.

To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to
have free access. --John x. 9.

To go in for. [Colloq.]
(a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
measure, etc.).
(b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
preferment, etc.)
(c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
(d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
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He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
anything else. --Dickens.


To go in to or To go in unto.
(a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
(b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]

To go into.
(a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
subject, etc.).
(b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

To go large.
(Naut) See under Large.

To go off.
(a) To go away; to depart.
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The leaders . . . will not go off until they
hear you. --Shak.
(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
(c) To die. --Shak.
(d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
a gun, a mine, etc.
(e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
(f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
[1913 Webster]

The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
--Mrs.
Caskell.

To go on.
(a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
go on reading.
(b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
not go on.

To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.
[1913 Webster]

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
--Macaulay.

To go out.
(a) To issue forth from a place.
(b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
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There are other men fitter to go out than I.
--Shak.
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What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7,
8, 9.
(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
news, fame etc.
(d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
the light has gone out.
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Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
--Addison.

To go over.
(a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
change sides.
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I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv.
22.
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Let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii.
25.
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Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
Ammonites. --Jer. xli.
10.
(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
over one's accounts.
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If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
thing. --Tillotson.
(c) To transcend; to surpass.
(d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
session.
(e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
dextrose and levulose.

To go through.
(a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
(b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
surgical operation or a tedious illness.
(c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
(d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
(e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]

To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the
end; to complete.

To go to ground.
(a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
(b) To fall in battle.

To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
unavailling.

To go under.
(a) To set; -- said of the sun.
(b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
(c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
to succumb.

To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
[Slang]

To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

To go with.
(a) To accompany.
(b) To coincide or agree with.
(c) To suit; to harmonize with.

To go well with, To go ill with, To go hard with, to
affect (one) in such manner.

To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

To go wrong.
(a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
stray.
(b) To depart from virtue.
(c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a
mishap or failure.
(d) To miss success; to fail.

To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
release.
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go to
(wn)		go to
v 1: be present at (meetings, church services, university),
etc.; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend
services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?" [syn:
attend, go to] [ant: miss]
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go to sleep
(mass)		go to sleep
- zaspať
go to any lengths
(encz)		go to any lengths,
go to any trouble
(encz)		go to any trouble,
go to bat for
(encz)		go to bat for,
go to bed
(encz)		go to bed,jít do postele Zdeněk Brožgo to bed,jít spát Zdeněk Brož
go to get
(encz)		go to get,vyzvednout [fráz.] koho/co kde Pino
go to great lengths
(encz)		go to great lengths,
go to hell in a handbasket
(encz)		go to hell in a handbasket,
go to pieces
(encz)		go to pieces,rozbít se Zdeněk Brožgo to pieces,rozsypat se Zdeněk Brožgo to pieces,roztříštit se Zdeněk Brožgo to pieces,zhroutit se Zdeněk Brož
go to pot
(encz)		go to pot,natáhnout brka Zdeněk Brož
go to sleep
(encz)		go to sleep,usnout v: Zdeněk Brož
go to the aid of someone
(encz)		go to the aid of someone,jít někomu na pomoc [fráz.] Pino
go to the dogs
(encz)		go to the dogs,jít od desíti k pěti [fráz.] Pinogo to the dogs,jít z kopce [fráz.] s někým, něčím, např. "The man went
to the dogs after he started drinking." Pinogo to the dogs,zhoršovat se [fráz.] rapidně, jít od desíti k pěti Pino
go to town on something
(encz)		go to town on something,vrhnout se na něco [fráz.] se zanícením Pino
go to war
(encz)		go to war, v:
go together
(encz)		go together,hodit se k sobě [fráz.] Pino
go too far
(encz)		go too far,zacházet do krajnosti Zdeněk Brož
let it go to your head
(encz)		let it go to your head,
Go to
(gcide)		Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n;
115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS,
wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to
D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan.
gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go,
AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from
the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf.
Gang, v. i., Wend.]
1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be
in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to
advance; to make progress; -- used, in various
applications, of the movement of both animate and
inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the
movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
[1913 Webster]

2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to
walk step by step, or leisurely.
[1913 Webster]

Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or
ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long
that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

He fell from running to going, and from going to
clambering upon his hands and his knees.
--Bunyan.
[1913 Webster]

Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in
the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
[1913 Webster]

3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to
circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken,
accepted, or regarded.
[1913 Webster]

The man went among men for an old man in the days of
Saul. --1 Sa. xvii.
12.
[1913 Webster]

[The money] should go according to its true value.
--Locke.
[1913 Webster]

4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move
on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue
or result; to succeed; to turn out.
[1913 Webster]

How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of
man enough. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]

Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you
must pay me the reward. --I Watts.
[1913 Webster]

5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or
product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to
avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the
infinitive; as, this goes to show.
[1913 Webster]

Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

To master the foul flend there goeth some complement
knowledge of theology. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]

6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
[1913 Webster]

Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a
resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to
justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P.
Sidney.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present
participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an
infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to
denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to
begin harvest.
[1913 Webster]

7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
or through.
[1913 Webster]

By going over all these particulars, you may receive
some tolerable satisfaction about this great
subject. --South.
[1913 Webster]

8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
[1913 Webster]

The fruit she goes with,
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
[1913 Webster]

I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
--Ex. viii.
28.
[1913 Webster]

10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
[1913 Webster]

By Saint George, he's gone!
That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]

11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
York.
[1913 Webster]

His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
may allow. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
astray, etc.
[1913 Webster]

Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
serious or ironical.

To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

To go about.
(a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix.
29.
[1913 Webster]

They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
their vices. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.


To go abraod.
(a) To go to a foreign country.
(b) To go out of doors.
(c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
current.
[1913 Webster]

Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren. --John xxi.
23.

To go against.
(a) To march against; to attack.
(b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

To go ahead.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

To go aside.
(a) To withdraw; to retire.
[1913 Webster]

He . . . went aside privately into a desert
place. --Luke. ix.
10.
(b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

To go back on.
(a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
(b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
S.]

To go below
(Naut), to go below deck.

To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.


To go beyond. See under Beyond.

To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried
overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

To go down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
(c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
(d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
[Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]

Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.

To go far.
(a) To go to a distance.
(b) To have much weight or influence.

To go for.
(a) To go in quest of.
(b) To represent; to pass for.
(c) To favor; to advocate.
(d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
(e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or
result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
for nothing.

To go forth.
(a) To depart from a place.
(b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
[1913 Webster]

The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.

To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to
have free access. --John x. 9.

To go in for. [Colloq.]
(a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
measure, etc.).
(b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
preferment, etc.)
(c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
(d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
[1913 Webster]

He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
anything else. --Dickens.


To go in to or To go in unto.
(a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
(b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]

To go into.
(a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
subject, etc.).
(b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

To go large.
(Naut) See under Large.

To go off.
(a) To go away; to depart.
[1913 Webster]

The leaders . . . will not go off until they
hear you. --Shak.
(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
(c) To die. --Shak.
(d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
a gun, a mine, etc.
(e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
(f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
[1913 Webster]

The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
--Mrs.
Caskell.

To go on.
(a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
go on reading.
(b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
not go on.

To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.
[1913 Webster]

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
--Macaulay.

To go out.
(a) To issue forth from a place.
(b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
[1913 Webster]

There are other men fitter to go out than I.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7,
8, 9.
(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
news, fame etc.
(d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
the light has gone out.
[1913 Webster]

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
--Addison.

To go over.
(a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
change sides.
[1913 Webster]

I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv.
22.
[1913 Webster]

Let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii.
25.
[1913 Webster]

Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
Ammonites. --Jer. xli.
10.
(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
over one's accounts.
[1913 Webster]

If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
thing. --Tillotson.
(c) To transcend; to surpass.
(d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
session.
(e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
dextrose and levulose.

To go through.
(a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
(b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
surgical operation or a tedious illness.
(c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
(d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
(e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]

To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the
end; to complete.

To go to ground.
(a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
(b) To fall in battle.

To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
unavailling.

To go under.
(a) To set; -- said of the sun.
(b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
(c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
to succumb.

To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
[Slang]

To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

To go with.
(a) To accompany.
(b) To coincide or agree with.
(c) To suit; to harmonize with.

To go well with, To go ill with, To go hard with, to
affect (one) in such manner.

To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

To go wrong.
(a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
stray.
(b) To depart from virtue.
(c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a
mishap or failure.
(d) To miss success; to fail.

To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
release.
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go to hell in a handbasket
(gcide)		handbasket \hand"bask*et\ n.
a container that is usually woven and has handles.

Syn: basket.
[WordNet 1.5]

go to hell in a handbasket to deteriorate substantially and
quickly; as, after they lost the contract, the company's
profits went to hell in a handbasket.
[PJC]
To go to ground
(gcide)		Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n;
115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS,
wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to
D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan.
gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go,
AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from
the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf.
Gang, v. i., Wend.]
1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be
in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to
advance; to make progress; -- used, in various
applications, of the movement of both animate and
inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the
movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
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2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to
walk step by step, or leisurely.
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Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or
ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.
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You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go.
--Shak.
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Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long
that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
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He fell from running to going, and from going to
clambering upon his hands and his knees.
--Bunyan.
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Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in
the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
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3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to
circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken,
accepted, or regarded.
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The man went among men for an old man in the days of
Saul. --1 Sa. xvii.
12.
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[The money] should go according to its true value.
--Locke.
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4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move
on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue
or result; to succeed; to turn out.
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How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.
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I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of
man enough. --Arbuthnot.
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Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you
must pay me the reward. --I Watts.
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5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or
product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to
avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the
infinitive; as, this goes to show.
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Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
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To master the foul flend there goeth some complement
knowledge of theology. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
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Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a
resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to
justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present
participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an
infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to
denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to
begin harvest.
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
or through.
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By going over all these particulars, you may receive
some tolerable satisfaction about this great
subject. --South.
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8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
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The fruit she goes with,
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live. --Shak.
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9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
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I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
--Ex. viii.
28.
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10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
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By Saint George, he's gone!
That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W.
Scott.
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11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
York.
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His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
may allow. --Dryden.
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12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
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Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
astray, etc.
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Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
serious or ironical.

To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

To go about.
(a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix.
29.
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They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
their vices. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.


To go abraod.
(a) To go to a foreign country.
(b) To go out of doors.
(c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
current.
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Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren. --John xxi.
23.

To go against.
(a) To march against; to attack.
(b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

To go ahead.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

To go aside.
(a) To withdraw; to retire.
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He . . . went aside privately into a desert
place. --Luke. ix.
10.
(b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

To go back on.
(a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
(b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
S.]

To go below
(Naut), to go below deck.

To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.


To go beyond. See under Beyond.

To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried
overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

To go down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
(c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
(d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
[Colloq.]
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Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.

To go far.
(a) To go to a distance.
(b) To have much weight or influence.

To go for.
(a) To go in quest of.
(b) To represent; to pass for.
(c) To favor; to advocate.
(d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
(e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or
result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
for nothing.

To go forth.
(a) To depart from a place.
(b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
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The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.

To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to
have free access. --John x. 9.

To go in for. [Colloq.]
(a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
measure, etc.).
(b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
preferment, etc.)
(c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
(d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
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He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
anything else. --Dickens.


To go in to or To go in unto.
(a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
(b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]

To go into.
(a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
subject, etc.).
(b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

To go large.
(Naut) See under Large.

To go off.
(a) To go away; to depart.
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The leaders . . . will not go off until they
hear you. --Shak.
(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
(c) To die. --Shak.
(d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
a gun, a mine, etc.
(e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
(f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
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The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
--Mrs.
Caskell.

To go on.
(a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
go on reading.
(b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
not go on.

To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.
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It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
--Macaulay.

To go out.
(a) To issue forth from a place.
(b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
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There are other men fitter to go out than I.
--Shak.
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What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7,
8, 9.
(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
news, fame etc.
(d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
the light has gone out.
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Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
--Addison.

To go over.
(a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
change sides.
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I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv.
22.
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Let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii.
25.
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Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
Ammonites. --Jer. xli.
10.
(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
over one's accounts.
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If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
thing. --Tillotson.
(c) To transcend; to surpass.
(d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
session.
(e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
dextrose and levulose.

To go through.
(a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
(b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
surgical operation or a tedious illness.
(c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
(d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
(e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]

To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the
end; to complete.

To go to ground.
(a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
(b) To fall in battle.

To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
unavailling.

To go under.
(a) To set; -- said of the sun.
(b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
(c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
to succumb.

To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
[Slang]

To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

To go with.
(a) To accompany.
(b) To coincide or agree with.
(c) To suit; to harmonize with.

To go well with, To go ill with, To go hard with, to
affect (one) in such manner.

To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

To go wrong.
(a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
stray.
(b) To depart from virtue.
(c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a
mishap or failure.
(d) To miss success; to fail.

To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
release.
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To go to law
(gcide)		Law \Law\ (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root
of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l["o]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov;
cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or
fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See
Lie to be prostrate.]
1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by
an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling
regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent
or a power acts.
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Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or
unwritten, published or secret. From the nature of the
highest laws a degree of permanency or stability is
always implied; but the power which makes a law, or a
superior power, may annul or change it.
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These are the statutes and judgments and laws,
which the Lord made. --Lev. xxvi.
46.
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The law of thy God, and the law of the King.
--Ezra vii.
26.
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As if they would confine the Interminable . . .
Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.
--Milton.
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His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
--Cowper.
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2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition
and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and
toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to
righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the
conscience or moral nature.
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3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture
where it is written, in distinction from the gospel;
hence, also, the Old Testament. Specifically: the first
five books of the bible, called also Torah, Pentatech,
or Law of Moses.
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What things soever the law saith, it saith to them
who are under the law . . . But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets. --Rom.
iii. 19, 21.
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4. In human government:
(a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter,
establishing and defining the conditions of the
existence of a state or other organized community.
(b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute,
resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or
recognized, and enforced, by the controlling
authority.
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5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or
change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as
imposed by the will of God or by some controlling
authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion;
the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause
and effect; law of self-preservation.
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6. In mathematics: The rule according to which anything, as
the change of value of a variable, or the value of the
terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
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7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or
of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a
principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of
architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
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8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one
subject, or emanating from one source; -- including
usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial
proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman
law; the law of real property; insurance law.
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9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity;
applied justice.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law
itself is nothing else but reason. --Coke.
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Law is beneficence acting by rule. --Burke.
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And sovereign Law, that state's collected will
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. --Sir
W. Jones.
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10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy;
litigation; as, to go law.
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When every case in law is right. --Shak.
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He found law dear and left it cheap. --Brougham.
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11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See {Wager
of law}, under Wager.
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Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according
to which, under similar conditions of temperature and
pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume
the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after
Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called
Amp[`e]re's law.

Bode's law (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression
of the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows:
-- Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4
4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
--- --- 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4
52 95.4 192 300 where each distance (line third) is the
sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8,
etc., the true distances being given in the lower line.

Boyle's law (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when
an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at
a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and
volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is
inversely proportioned to the pressure; -- known also as
Mariotte's law, and the law of Boyle and Mariotte.

Brehon laws. See under Brehon.

Canon law, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the
Christian Church, certain portions of which (for example,
the law of marriage as existing before the Council of
Tent) were brought to America by the English colonists as
part of the common law of the land. --Wharton.

Civil law, a term used by writers to designate Roman law,
with modifications thereof which have been made in the
different countries into which that law has been
introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law,
prevails in the State of Louisiana. --Wharton.

Commercial law. See Law merchant (below).

Common law. See under Common.

Criminal law, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to
crimes.

Ecclesiastical law. See under Ecclesiastical.

Grimm's law (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the
German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes
which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants,
so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some
changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the
Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bh[=a]t[.r], L. frater,
E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr.
go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dh[=a] to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E.
do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. See also lautverschiebung.

Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws or
expressions of the order of the planetary motions,
discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit
of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun
being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a
vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to
the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times
of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes
of their mean distances.

Law binding, a plain style of leather binding, used for law
books; -- called also law calf.

Law book, a book containing, or treating of, laws.

Law calf. See Law binding (above).

Law day.
(a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet.
(b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the
money to secure which it was given. [U. S.]

Law French, the dialect of Norman, which was used in
judicial proceedings and law books in England from the
days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of
Edward III.

Law language, the language used in legal writings and
forms.

Law Latin. See under Latin.

Law lords, peers in the British Parliament who have held
high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal
profession.

Law merchant, or Commercial law, a system of rules by
which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from
the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial
decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures.

Law of Charles (Physics), the law that the volume of a
given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite
fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of
temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled {Gay
Lussac's law}, or Dalton's law.

Law of nations. See International law, under
International.

Law of nature.
(a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant
action, or effect, of natural conditions; as, death
is a law of nature; self-defense is a law of nature.
See Law, 4.
(b) A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality
deducible from a study of the nature and natural
relations of human beings independent of supernatural
revelation or of municipal and social usages.

Law of the land, due process of law; the general law of the
land.

Laws of honor. See under Honor.

Laws of motion (Physics), three laws defined by Sir Isaac
Newton: (1) Every body perseveres in its state of rest or
of moving uniformly in a straight line, except so far as
it is made to change that state by external force. (2)
Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force,
and takes place in the direction in which the force is
impressed. (3) Reaction is always equal and opposite to
action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon
each other are always equal and in opposite directions.

Marine law, or Maritime law, the law of the sea; a branch
of the law merchant relating to the affairs of the sea,
such as seamen, ships, shipping, navigation, and the like.
--Bouvier.

Mariotte's law. See Boyle's law (above).

Martial law.See under Martial.

Military law, a branch of the general municipal law,
consisting of rules ordained for the government of the
military force of a state in peace and war, and
administered in courts martial. --Kent. --Warren's
Blackstone.

Moral law, the law of duty as regards what is right and
wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten
commandments given by Moses. See Law, 2.

Mosaic law, or Ceremonial law. (Script.) See Law, 3.

Municipal law, or Positive law, a rule prescribed by the
supreme power of a state, declaring some right, enforcing
some duty, or prohibiting some act; -- distinguished from
international law and constitutional law. See Law,
1.

Periodic law. (Chem.) See under Periodic.

Roman law, the system of principles and laws found in the
codes and treatises of the lawmakers and jurists of
ancient Rome, and incorporated more or less into the laws
of the several European countries and colonies founded by
them. See Civil law (above).

Statute law, the law as stated in statutes or positive
enactments of the legislative body.

Sumptuary law. See under Sumptuary.

To go to law, to seek a settlement of any matter by
bringing it before the courts of law; to sue or prosecute
some one.

To take the law of, or To have the law of, to bring the
law to bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor.
--Addison.

Wager of law. See under Wager.

Syn: Justice; equity.

Usage: Law, Statute, Common law, Regulation, Edict,
Decree. Law is generic, and, when used with
reference to, or in connection with, the other words
here considered, denotes whatever is commanded by one
who has a right to require obedience. A statute is a
particular law drawn out in form, and distinctly
enacted and proclaimed. Common law is a rule of action
founded on long usage and the decisions of courts of
justice. A regulation is a limited and often,
temporary law, intended to secure some particular end
or object. An edict is a command or law issued by a
sovereign, and is peculiar to a despotic government. A
decree is a permanent order either of a court or of
the executive government. See Justice.
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To go to loggerheads
(gcide)		Loggerhead \Log"ger*head`\, n. [Log + head.]
1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. --Shak. Milton.
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2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat
tar.
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3. (Naut.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat,
over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running
out too fast. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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4. (Zool.) A very large marine turtle ({Thalassochelys
caretta} syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the
warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape
Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.
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5. (Zool.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus),
similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.
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To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or {To go
to loggerheads}, to quarrel; to be at strife. --L' Estrange.
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To go to meat
(gcide)		Meat \Meat\ (m[=e]t), n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat,
meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz
food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. Mast
fruit, Mush.]
1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either
by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as,
the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer.
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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat.
--Gen. i. 29.
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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
you. --Gen. ix. 3.
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2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle;
as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
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3. Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit.

Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond.

Meat fly. (Zool.) See Flesh fly, under Flesh.

Meat offering (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a
cake made of flour with salt and oil.

To go to meat, to go to a meal. [Obs.]

To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food.
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To go to naught
(gcide)		Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n;
115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS,
wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to
D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan.
gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go,
AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from
the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf.
Gang, v. i., Wend.]
1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be
in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to
advance; to make progress; -- used, in various
applications, of the movement of both animate and
inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the
movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
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2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to
walk step by step, or leisurely.
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Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or
ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.
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You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go.
--Shak.
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Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long
that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
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He fell from running to going, and from going to
clambering upon his hands and his knees.
--Bunyan.
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Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in
the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
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3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to
circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken,
accepted, or regarded.
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The man went among men for an old man in the days of
Saul. --1 Sa. xvii.
12.
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[The money] should go according to its true value.
--Locke.
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4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move
on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue
or result; to succeed; to turn out.
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How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.
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I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of
man enough. --Arbuthnot.
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Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you
must pay me the reward. --I Watts.
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5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or
product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to
avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the
infinitive; as, this goes to show.
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Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
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To master the foul flend there goeth some complement
knowledge of theology. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
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Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a
resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to
justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present
participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an
infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to
denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to
begin harvest.
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
or through.
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By going over all these particulars, you may receive
some tolerable satisfaction about this great
subject. --South.
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8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
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The fruit she goes with,
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live. --Shak.
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9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
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I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
--Ex. viii.
28.
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10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
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By Saint George, he's gone!
That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W.
Scott.
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11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
York.
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His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
may allow. --Dryden.
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12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
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Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
astray, etc.
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Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
serious or ironical.

To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

To go about.
(a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix.
29.
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They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
their vices. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.


To go abraod.
(a) To go to a foreign country.
(b) To go out of doors.
(c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
current.
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Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren. --John xxi.
23.

To go against.
(a) To march against; to attack.
(b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

To go ahead.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

To go aside.
(a) To withdraw; to retire.
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He . . . went aside privately into a desert
place. --Luke. ix.
10.
(b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

To go back on.
(a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
(b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
S.]

To go below
(Naut), to go below deck.

To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.


To go beyond. See under Beyond.

To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried
overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

To go down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
(c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
(d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
[Colloq.]
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Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.

To go far.
(a) To go to a distance.
(b) To have much weight or influence.

To go for.
(a) To go in quest of.
(b) To represent; to pass for.
(c) To favor; to advocate.
(d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
(e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or
result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
for nothing.

To go forth.
(a) To depart from a place.
(b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
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The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.

To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to
have free access. --John x. 9.

To go in for. [Colloq.]
(a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
measure, etc.).
(b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
preferment, etc.)
(c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
(d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
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He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
anything else. --Dickens.


To go in to or To go in unto.
(a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
(b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]

To go into.
(a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
subject, etc.).
(b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

To go large.
(Naut) See under Large.

To go off.
(a) To go away; to depart.
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The leaders . . . will not go off until they
hear you. --Shak.
(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
(c) To die. --Shak.
(d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
a gun, a mine, etc.
(e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
(f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
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The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
--Mrs.
Caskell.

To go on.
(a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
go on reading.
(b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
not go on.

To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.
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It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
--Macaulay.

To go out.
(a) To issue forth from a place.
(b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
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There are other men fitter to go out than I.
--Shak.
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What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7,
8, 9.
(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
news, fame etc.
(d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
the light has gone out.
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Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
--Addison.

To go over.
(a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
change sides.
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I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv.
22.
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Let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii.
25.
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Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
Ammonites. --Jer. xli.
10.
(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
over one's accounts.
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If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
thing. --Tillotson.
(c) To transcend; to surpass.
(d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
session.
(e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
dextrose and levulose.

To go through.
(a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
(b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
surgical operation or a tedious illness.
(c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
(d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
(e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]

To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the
end; to complete.

To go to ground.
(a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
(b) To fall in battle.

To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
unavailling.

To go under.
(a) To set; -- said of the sun.
(b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
(c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
to succumb.

To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
[Slang]

To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

To go with.
(a) To accompany.
(b) To coincide or agree with.
(c) To suit; to harmonize with.

To go well with, To go ill with, To go hard with, to
affect (one) in such manner.

To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

To go wrong.
(a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
stray.
(b) To depart from virtue.
(c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a
mishap or failure.
(d) To miss success; to fail.

To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
release.
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To go to pot
(gcide)		Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta,
Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.]
1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a
great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables,
for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a
flower pot; a bean pot.
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2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
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3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of
ale. "Give her a pot and a cake." --De Foe.
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4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top
of a chimney; a chimney pot.
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5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
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6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
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7. A perforated cask for draining sugar. --Knight.
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8. A size of paper. See Pott.
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9. marijuana. [slang]
[PJC]

10. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing
or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse
heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang]
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11. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps
in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also {pot
helmet}.
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12. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the
pool.
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Jack pot. See under 2d Jack.

Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage.

Pot companion, a companion in drinking.

Pot hanger, a pothook.

Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are
boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane,
and many others.

Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will
help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for
the table or for the market.

Pot metal.
(a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different
from common pig iron.
(b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large
vessels for various purposes in the arts. --Ure.
(c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are
incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.
--Knight.

Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the
monkey-pot.

Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria.

To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of
usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] --Dryden. --J. G.
Saxe.
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To go to rack
(gcide)		Rack \Rack\, n. [See Wreck.]
A wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.]
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Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.]

To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] "All
goes to rack." --Pepys.
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To go to sea
(gcide)		Sea \Sea\ (s[=e]), n. [OE. see, AS. s[=ae]; akin to D. zee, OS.
& OHG. s[=e]o, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. s["o], Sw. sj["o],
Icel. saer, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce,
savage. [root]151a.]
1. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an
ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water
of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting
with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea;
the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
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2. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or
brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes,
a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
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3. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a
large part of the globe.
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I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. --Shak.
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Ambiguous between sea and land
The river horse and scaly crocodile. --Milton.
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4. The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high
wind; motion or agitation of the water's surface; also, a
single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the
storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
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5. (Jewish Antiq.) A great brazen laver in the temple at
Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
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He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to
brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height
thereof. --2 Chron. iv.
2.
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6. Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea
of glory. --Shak.
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All the space . . . was one sea of heads.
--Macaulay.
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Note: Sea is often used in the composition of words of
obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten,
sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed,
sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is
also used either adjectively or in combination with
substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea
acorn, or sea-acorn.
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At sea, upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively,
without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of
circumstances. "To say the old man was at sea would be too
feeble an expression." --G. W. Cable

At full sea at the height of flood tide; hence, at the
height. "But now God's mercy was at full sea." --Jer.
Taylor.

Beyond seas, or Beyond the sea or Beyond the seas
(Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country.
--Wharton.

Half seas over, half drunk. [Colloq.] --Spectator.

Heavy sea, a sea in which the waves run high.

Long sea, a sea characterized by the uniform and steady
motion of long and extensive waves.

Short sea, a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and
irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.


To go to sea, to adopt the calling or occupation of a
sailor.
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To go to the bottom
(gcide)		Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[o^]t"t[u^]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS.
botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden,
Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for
fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for
bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base.
[root]257. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.]
1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a
tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
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Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak.
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2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and
supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person
sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or
the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
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Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay.
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No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low
backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W.
Irving.
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3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal
or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
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4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
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5. The fundament; the buttocks.
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6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;
low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the
high grounds." --Stoddard.
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8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under
water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak.
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Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London
in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft.
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Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a
large amount of merchandise.
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9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
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10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson.
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At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in
reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." --J. F.
Cooper.

To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of;
to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.]
--J. H. Newman.
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He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
--Addison.
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To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked.

To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find
something on which to rest.
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To go to the dogs
(gcide)		Dog \Dog\ (d[add]g or d[o^]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog
mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.]
1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the
domestic dog (Canis familiaris).

Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the
inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and
attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred
varieties, as the akita, beagle, bloodhound,
bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog,
foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer,
poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz,
terrier, German shepherd, pit bull, Chihuahua,
etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially
domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the
dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.)
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2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
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What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he
should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings
viii. 13 (Rev.
Ver. )
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3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly
dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.]
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4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and
Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis
Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
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5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an
andiron.
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6. (Mech.)
(a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening
into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of
raising or moving them.
(b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on
the carriage of a sawmill.
(c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch;
especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an
adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine
tool.
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7. an ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman. [slang]
[PJC]

8. a hot dog. [slang]
[PJC]

Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in
the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog.
It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox,
a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; --
also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as,
dog Latin.
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A dead dog, a thing of no use or value. --1 Sam. xxiv. 14.

A dog in the manger, an ugly-natured person who prevents
others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them
but is none to him.

Dog ape (Zool.), a male ape.

Dog cabbage, or Dog's cabbage (Bot.), a succulent herb,
native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum
Cynocrambe}).

Dog cheap, very cheap. See under Cheap.

Dog ear (Arch.), an acroterium. [Colloq.]

Dog flea (Zool.), a species of flea (Pulex canis) which
infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In
America it is the common flea. See Flea, and
Aphaniptera.

Dog grass (Bot.), a grass (Triticum caninum) of the same
genus as wheat.

Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy.


Dog lichen (Bot.), a kind of lichen (Peltigera canina)
growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed
expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous
veins beneath.

Dog louse (Zool.), a louse that infests the dog, esp.
H[ae]matopinus piliferus; another species is
Trichodectes latus.

Dog power, a machine operated by the weight of a dog
traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for
churning.

Dog salmon (Zool.), a salmon of northwest America and
northern Asia; -- the gorbuscha; -- called also holia,
and hone.

Dog shark. (Zool.) See Dogfish.

Dog's meat, meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal.

Dog Star. See in the Vocabulary.

Dog wheat (Bot.), Dog grass.

Dog whelk (Zool.), any species of univalve shells of the
family Nassid[ae], esp. the Nassa reticulata of
England.

To give to the dogs, or To throw to the dogs, to throw
away as useless. "Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of
it." --Shak.

To go to the dogs, to go to ruin; to be ruined.
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To go to the wall
(gcide)		Wall \Wall\, n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a
stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. ? a nail. Cf. Interval.]
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1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials,
raised to some height, and intended for defense or
security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a
field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright
inclosing parts of a building or a room.
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The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. --Dan.
v. 5.
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2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the
plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
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The waters were a wall unto them on their right
hand, and on their left. --Ex. xiv. 22.
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In such a night,
Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. --Shak.
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To rush undaunted to defend the walls. --Dryden.
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3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls
of a steam-engine cylinder.
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4. (Mining)
(a) The side of a level or drift.
(b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. --Raymond.
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Note: Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the
formation of compounds, usually of obvious
signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall
fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc.
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Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See under Blank, Blind,
etc.

To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to
extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over.

To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the
weaker party; to be pushed to extremes.

To take the wall. to take the inner side of a walk, that
is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence.
"I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's."
--Shak.

Wall barley (Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum)
much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under
Squirrel.

Wall box. (Mach.) See Wall frame, below.

Wall creeper (Zool.), a small bright-colored bird
(Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe.
It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of
insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing
coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red
at the base and black distally, some of them with white
spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also {spider
catcher}.

Wall cress (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous
herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under
Mouse-ear.

Wall frame (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a
pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the
wall; -- called also wall box.

Wall fruit, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall.

Wall gecko (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World
geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the
vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means
of suckers on the feet.

Wall lizard (Zool.), a common European lizard ({Lacerta
muralis}) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks
and crevices of walls; -- called also wall newt.

Wall louse, a wood louse.

Wall moss (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls.

Wall newt (Zool.), the wall lizard. --Shak.

Wall paper, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper
hangings.

Wall pellitory (Bot.), a European plant ({Parictaria
officinalis}) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed
medicinal.

Wall pennywort (Bot.), a plant (Cotyledon Umbilicus)
having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in
Western Europe.

Wall pepper (Bot.), a low mosslike plant (Sedum acre)
with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and
bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in
Europe, and is sometimes seen in America.

Wall pie (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue.

Wall piece, a gun planted on a wall. --H. L. Scott.

Wall plate (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally
upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like.
See Illust. of Roof.

Wall rock, granular limestone used in building walls. [U.
S.] --Bartlett.

Wall rue (Bot.), a species of small fern ({Asplenium
Ruta-muraria}) growing on walls, rocks, and the like.

Wall spring, a spring of water issuing from stratified
rocks.

Wall tent, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to
the walls of a house.

Wall wasp (Zool.), a common European solitary wasp
(Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices
of walls.
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To go to the world
(gcide)		World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS.
weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt,
worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver["o]ld, Sw. verld,
Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity;
AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime,
age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]
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1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the
system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
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The invisible things of him from the creation of the
world are clearly seen. --Rom. 1. 20.
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With desire to know,
What nearer might concern him, how this world
Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.
--Milton.
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2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with
human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. "Lord of the
worlds above." --I. Watts.
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Amongst innumerable stars, that shone
Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.
--Milton.
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There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants
have never violated their allegiance to their
almighty Sovereign. --W. B.
Sprague.
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3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the
sum of human affairs and interests.
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That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
--Milton.
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4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its
concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any
one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human
affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given
point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and
action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious
world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future
world; the heathen world.
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One of the greatest in the Christian world
Shall be my surety. --Shak.
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Murmuring that now they must be put to make war
beyond the world's end -- for so they counted
Britain. --Milton.
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5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general
affairs of life; human society; public affairs and
occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
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Happy is she that from the world retires. --Waller.
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If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious,
May Juba ever live in ignorance. --Addison.
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6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of
life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as,
to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and
begin the world anew.
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7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in
general; the public; mankind.
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Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to
any purpose that the world can say against it.
--Shak.
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Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
For undertaking so unstaid a journey? --Shak.
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8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;
concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the
life to come; the present existence and its interests;
hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the
affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or
wicked part of mankind.
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I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
hast given me; for they are thine. --John xvii.
9.
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Love not the world, neither the things that are in
the world. If any man love the world, the love of
the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
but is of the world. --1 John ii.
15, 16.
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9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity;
a large number. "A world of men." --Chapman. "A world of
blossoms for the bee." --Bryant.
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Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak.
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A world of woes dispatched in little space.
--Dryden.
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All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is
possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not
save him.

A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or
surprising to see. [Obs.]
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O, you are novices; 't is a world to see
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
--Shak.
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For all the world.
(a) Precisely; exactly.
(b) For any consideration.

Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted
Names in Fiction.

To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every
one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and
cry heighho for a husband!" --Shak.

World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world;
the remotest regions.

World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if
in a state of existence having no end.
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Throughout all ages, world without end. --Eph. iii.
21.
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To go to work
(gcide)		Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), n. [OE. work, werk, weorc, AS. weorc,
worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG.
werc, werah, Icel. & Sw. verk, Dan. v[ae]rk, Goth.
gawa['u]rki, Gr. 'e`rgon, [digamma]e`rgon, work, "re`zein to
do, 'o`rganon an instrument, 'o`rgia secret rites, Zend verez
to work. [root]145. Cf. Bulwark, Energy, Erg,
Georgic, Liturgy, Metallurgy, Organ, Orgy,
Surgeon, Wright.]
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1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or
intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial
activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically,
physical labor.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed. --Milton.
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2. The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one
spends labor; material for working upon; subject of
exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to
take up one's work; to drop one's work.
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Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand
That you yet know not of. --Shak.
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In every work that he began . . . he did it with all
his heart, and prospered. --2 Chron.
xxxi. 21.
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3. That which is produced as the result of labor; anything
accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance;
fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed,
service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
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To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. --Shak.
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The work some praise,
And some the architect. --Milton.
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Fancy . . .
Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.
--Milton.
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The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . .
is the chief work of elements. --Sir K.
Digby.
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4. Specifically:
(a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition;
a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison.
(b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the
needle; embroidery.
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I am glad I have found this napkin; . . .
I'll have the work ta'en out,
And give 't Iago. --Shak.
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(c) pl. Structures in civil, military, or naval
engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches,
fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and
grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron
works; locomotive works; gas works.
(d) pl. The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of
a watch.
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5. Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful
work spoiled the effect. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
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6. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force.
The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by,
the product of the force into the amount of motion along
the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy,
under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also
Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
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Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is
the transference of energy from one system to
another. --Clerk
Maxwell.
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7. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed. --Raymond.
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8. pl. (Script.) Performance of moral duties; righteous
conduct.
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He shall reward every man according to his works.
--Matt. xvi.
27.
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Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. --James ii.
17.
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9. (Cricket) Break; twist. [Cant]
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10. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force,
measured by the product of the force into the component
of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.

Energy is the capacity of doing work. . . . Work is
the transference of energy from one system to
another. --Clerk
Maxwell.
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11. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed.
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Muscular work (Physiol.), the work done by a muscle through
the power of contraction.

To go to work, to begin laboring; to commence operations;
to contrive; to manage. "I 'll go another way to work with
him." --Shak.

To set on work, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work.
[Obs.] --Hooker.

To set to work, to employ; to cause to engage in any
business or labor.
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go to bed
(wn)		go to bed
v 1: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He
goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, {turn
in}, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, {hit the
sack}, sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise,
get up, rise, turn out, uprise]
go to pieces
(wn)		go to pieces
v 1: lose one's emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart
when her only child died" [syn: fall apart, {go to
pieces}]
go to pot
(wn)		go to pot
v 1: become ruined; "His business went to pot when economy
soured" [syn: go to pot, go to the dogs]
go to sleep
(wn)		go to sleep
v 1: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He
goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, {turn
in}, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, {hit the
sack}, sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise,
get up, rise, turn out, uprise]
go to the dogs
(wn)		go to the dogs
v 1: become ruined; "His business went to pot when economy
soured" [syn: go to pot, go to the dogs]
go to war
(wn)		go to war
v 1: commence hostilities [syn: go to war, take arms, {take
up arms}]

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